Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 16, 2022

This month, Advancement Courses is kicking off their annual Tournament of Teachers bracket challenge where educators can win up to $2,000 in prizes. First, games are an excellent tool in the hands of a trained educator. Today’s topic brings these two together. “A Learn how games can be a powerful way to teach life skills.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 4, 2023

Figjam is part of the Adobe Figma suite of tools and is free for educators and their students. Outline of: Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better Sponsor: Research Quest Introducing Tom Mullaney What is Figma? How do you set up a Figma/ Figjam education account? What is Figjam?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They’ve followed news stories and seen video clips of an insurrection at the nation’s capital. In 2018 , the Southern Poverty Law Center conducted research on more than 800 hate and bias incidents and reported that “two-thirds of educators had witnessed a hate or bias incident in school and two-thirds of the incidents were racially motivated.”

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 14, 2022

The US Department of Education Roadmap for Reopening Safely says that “accelerated learning provides opportunities for students to learn at grade level rather than through tracking or remediation….” Simply put, acceleration “builds on what students know as a way to access new learning.” Department of Education.

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Science and Steamteam

JULY 12, 2022

Frank Gregorio’s videos are perfect when you want to introduce a new topic. These educational videos focus on math and science lessons from everyday life, which is why I think you will love them! After that, Steve became a television host for News or Kids. Lab 360 posts lots of videos about the latest science news.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 20, 2020

With education turning on the technology skills of students and teachers, its important to gain a rudimentary understanding of foundational technology. Dr. Paul Perry, former teacher, administrator, and nonprofit exec, has put together a brief guide for educators looking to expand learning opportunities for students using technology.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

When kids read that America’s $23 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

As the Delta variant of COVID-19 spread around the country, school districts in hard-hit regions of the country gave students and educators a chance to catch their breath. Researchers track over 5,000 school districts every week, and review communications from district superintendents. That same day, schools in Cumberland County, N.C.,

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The idea that exam results should be assessed differently based on a student’s socio-economic background is known as differential treatment, and Emil is investigating whether such policies can improve equality and efficiency in education and labour markets. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode of the 10 Minute Teacher podcast, host Vicki Davis sits down with Lauren Lavelle to discuss the transformative educational approach known as Genius Hour 2.0. Thanks to partners, these lessons are FREE for all K-12 schools and students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2019

I remember report card days as a child, me sitting outside on a brick wall, scared to death as my mother met with the teacher and received the (always bad) news about how I wasn’t doing. Sometimes, it’s challenging to involve parents in student education in a meaningful way. Fast forward to me as a K-5 teacher.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

“Understanding Society is the largest longitudinal study of its kind and provides crucial information for researchers and policymakers on changes and stability in people’s lives in the UK,” says Professor Birgitta Rabe. In recent years, Birgitta has focused on children and what the data reveals about their educational experiences.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2016

They are funny, entertaining, and often educational. This lesson plan from Dr. Pastore highlights several topics that students could create a podcast on with links to examples of podcasts that cover courses ranging from French as a second language to math. As ELA material. As a way to review material.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

I love educational technology. As many in education know, commentary about ChatGPT is appearing on the news, social media, and the internet. As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education). Later, I describe and show the work of my students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2017

A podcast is a topic-specific digital stream of audio files (in some cases, video or PDF also) that can be downloaded to a computer or a wide variety of media devices. They are funny, entertaining, educational, often short, and rarely boring. They can cover news, current events, history, or pretty much anything the creator would like.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 3, 2015

If your students struggle finding research websites that use words at their grade level, suggest they build their own site like Stephen did: History For Kids. Stephen writes clearly, cohesively, and spotlights the important events in each topic. Educational Applications. It’s called History for Kids. Really, nothing.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 10, 2023

His work could help make huge breakthroughs in healthcare, climate change, environment and water scarcity research. New adsorbent materials can also be used to remove pollutants from contaminated water streams,” explains Yamil. How does the team do this research? What is Yamil working on?

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones. Busy teachers use EVERFI’s standards-aligned, research-based digital lessons, recently awarded with the ISTE Seal for high-quality curriculum, to teach students to thrive in an ever-changing world. Episode 860.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2015

The internet is unavoidable in education. Students go there to research, access homework, check grades, and a whole lot more. It’s hugely popular with educators because collections are highly-visual and easy to access and use. is intuitive for even the youngest. is customizable. hosts videos of class events. a To Do list.

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Get Caught Engineering

APRIL 18, 2023

Earth Day this year is on a Saturday in April, although the earth’s environment is a topic that can be studied year-round in the classroom. Spring is a great time to assess students’ knowledge on the topic as well as research and explore resources that are available for teachers. Do they worry about the world’s waste?

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Stem Activities for Kids

APRIL 5, 2023

Discuss a STEM Topic or Issue I like to use discussion topics that have strong arguments for both sides: Is it more important to spend money on space exploration or improving conditions on Earth? Which topics in STEM affect your students? Grab inspiration from current news or trends in tech, gaming, science, and education!

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2023

She encourages teachers to shift their mindset from apprehension to curiosity and eagerness to learn something new. As the landscape of education technology rapidly changes, Rachelle shares some ideas of what the future of classroom learning could look like. She is currently working on two new books for educators.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 22, 2017

This project isn’t about researching; it’s about observing, noticing details, and taking advantage of what’s readily available. If students are older and prefer to find news via a Google search, install an extension like Readability to remove ads and other distractions from the website before reading.

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Scientix

JULY 22, 2022

The growing effects of climate change, loss of biodiversity and resource scarcity will require societal change and new technical solutions based on new scientific research. It combines real-life news stories (including technology news) from normative sources with business economics and GHG emissions. Career choice.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Most new jobholders never had to think about costs vs. revenue, instead relied on parents to keep a roof over their head, heat and AC turned on, and gas in the car (and a car in the driveway). The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad news is it’s not mandatory.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

If you're working with struggling readers in grades 6-12 try Literal and use the code coolcatteacher to set up a free educator account to get started. In a recent news article, Andrea noted that her struggling readers in grades 7-8 used to read at a grade 5 or 6 (Barshay). Use the code coolcat to set up your educator account for free.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2018

Crash Course is an immensely-popular YouTube video stream (with over a half a million viewers and counting) offered by two brothers who record weekly ten-fifteen minute videos addressing a wide variety of AP high school curriculum topics such as physics, astronomy, biology, history, chemistry, US history, World history, and computer science.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 28, 2017

Today’s guest writer is Finja Kruse, a teacher experienced in different educational tools and engaged in creative writing activities in school. Topics like health, history, geography, music, etc. Make use of the Internet and have students check the news to improve their research skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2017

Guest author, Emily Clearly over at mysimpleshow has ten more reasons why videos are a great educational tool for your teaching: Videos are in line with the technological times and can be accessed on the Internet at any point, from wherever you are in the world. Education is something that will never go out of style.

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Vivify Stem

MARCH 22, 2022

Includes a game and research activity. Recommended Websites for a Sub Lesson Plan A great way to reduce the stress for a sub is to give students the chance to explore some really cool websites related to a science or engineering topic of interest. It is published with support from NASA’s Landsat, Terra, and Aqua missions.

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Futurum

JULY 3, 2023

We typically build our episodes around what is happening in the news right now. Sometimes, one of us might get sent a confusing video or article, or we select a topic that needs to be examined in greater detail. Toni at work at her clinic First, find a topic you are passionate about, love to talk about and want to spread to the world.

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Vivify Stem

JUNE 1, 2022

at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. I hoped to help students see STEM as more applicable to their lives by exploring a relevant topic in engineering and climate change: designing sustainable, eco-friendly homes. It offers lesson plans and a resource database, as well as student-friendly news articles about climate change.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. So why do students turn to it for news? This stat may explain it: 60% of people don’t trust traditional news sources. This stat may explain it: 60% of people don’t trust traditional news sources.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 19, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in schools around the country. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Describe the data set.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

Headlines about the teacher in Virginia being shot by her 6-year-old student blew up in the news, and recently, Nashville experienced its own tragedy when a school intruder at The Covenant School killed three students and three adults. Teachers already have a daunting list of educational priorities. I’m definitely shyer now, though.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2015

This is a useful tool for rewording news stories to fit up to five different reading levels. Teacher ‘Pro’ accounts are available so educators can track student reading, assign articles, and offer quizzes. Learn, teach or research English language. Here are my top five: Newsela. Newsela is free and add-free.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 27, 2017

That was the message a student shared with a surprised audience of educators during a popular technology conference. As danah boyd recently shared on her site , “too many students I met were being told that Wikipedia was untrustworthy and were, instead, being encouraged to do research. “You don’t need to teach us.

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